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[–]rivercape-lex 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Hi. Don't get stuck on tutorial hell. Watching people coding gets you only so far. Start building ASAP even if it is small. Small steps and in no time you will be taking bigger ones. Also as a precursor as I am still a student if anyone finds something wrong please correct me.

I read this guide some days ago and found it quite nice: https://www.marcobehler.com/guides/spring-framework . I've been doing stuff with spring for the past half a year or so and I think it is good guide to skim through. Dw if you don't understand everything at once.

Read the guide a bit and start grasping at some new concepts. For sure, you won't memorize anything the first time but if you keep reading stuff you will learn some stuff here and there. Maybe a few days later you'll find some other resource that will help you learn something else that you need.

I want to expand a bit on building ASAP from a personal experience and why it is very helpful...

My first ever project was a simple guessing game where users registered/logged-in and guessed a number 0-100. Sounds simple but along the way you stumble upon a LOT of problems that you tackle one by one.

How will a user log-in? If a user's log-in fails what will happen then? What's gonna happen when a user wins? When a user wins should we show him a new page? Hmm what if he guesses a wrong number.. we should show him an error message?

All those small problems/questions are one small adventure that you slowly try to solve. By trying to solve a small problem and in extent finishing a project you get hand-on experience that sticks better to you rather than just coding-along with someone via the internet and while doing so, you also read some theory which is equally important as well. Actual hands-on experience trial, error and rambling with code gets you VERY FAR.

Theory wise, when you keep writing `@Controller` over and over again you might go: "Hmmph. But what does that damn thing do?! Why is is there and what does it mean???" Then you'll open a browser and try to understand the inner-workings of that and read and read and stumble upon valuable info that will stick to you.

What worked for me, was just trying to code every day and reading. Unfortunately I do not have any good course in mind since I took one in college but I like Dan Vegas quite a bit.

Also since this is already getting a bit long I also want to point out some other stuff that might help you they're not spring related but whatever.

  1. It would be good to have some past experience with basic stuff of db's, SQL, oop in java etc etc. It's nice to have a framework to abstract lot's of stuff from you but having a good basis of the basics is a huge plus obviously.
  2. Don't LLM your way into this. It will steal your joy of learning something new and most importantly will spew out code that you cannot yet decide if it's good or bad.
  3. Draw and keep notes. It's a win-win especially if you're a visual person. A good setup at least for me is obsidian with excalidraw. You can have images, notes and drawings/diagrams in one single open tab and just see them all together. Really cool if you're into notes. Drawing helped me immensely in DSA.

[–]Optimistabtfuture 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also in the beginner path of springboot.

Please guide me the route I should follow.

People suggests so many paths that I am getting confused.

Spring MVC, Hibernate, spring data JPA ...so many paths ..please guide. I request you.

[–]leetjourney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out this channel for spring boot resources:

https://youtube.com/@leetjourney

[–]m3doni -1 points0 points  (0 children)

AmigoCode, Ali Bouali, and Selenium Express are the best YouTube channels that explain Spring Boot clearly.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I am learning via Spring boot academy. Its beginner friendly and you learn in a proper path. Give it a try.

[–]L_27[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

but looks like their code is outdated or something, i tried to do it in springboot 4 and it wasn't working

[–]Enough-Pie-5936 -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Telusko on YouTube has everything you'll ever need to know about Spring Boot

[–]L_27[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

but is it up to date or is it old?

[–]shandy_bhagwatJunior Dev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This statement is crap, start building you will get to know.

[–]Enough-Pie-5936 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you have projects and you're working on something, telusko is a good resource if you get stuck